libc segfault

Bug #1460094 reported by grinch
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
glibc (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

libc segfaulting - none of the other bug reports matched my issue.

May 29 10:13:16 casa kernel: [68505.299318] VirtualBox[4036]: segfault at 4424fcb0 ip 00007ff88e151c7d sp 00007ffc28fb4380 error 4 in libc-2.21.so[7ff88e118000+1c0000]

I was browsing the internet(chrome). VirtualBox VM was loaded in background, not actively being used.
Screenshot would not help, it segfaults, kills gnome session and I am back at login screen, with DATA LOSS to all running programs

please fix this. Thank you

Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

# apt-cache policy libc-bin
libc-bin:
  Installed: 2.21-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.21-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.21-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected my session not to crash, and I expected not to lose data

My session crash unexpectedly, and I lost data when it did

Tags: segfault
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Jean (jean-o) wrote :

I had the same error in the same context.

[Mon Jan 18 10:56:10 2016] VirtualBox[1660]: segfault at 3fed9150 ip 00007f119d022c7d sp 00007ffcc6580220 error 4 in libc-2.21.so[7f119cfe9000+1c0000]

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in glibc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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